Pain
It’s hard to believe, but pain is essential for survival. Pain is the body’s alarm siren that draws our attention to some health disorder or to an actual illness, and protects us from greater injury by means of reflex actions. We don’t rely entirely on our millions of pain receptors, there are two additional safety devices: inflammation and prostaglandins, which are also described as pain amplifiers or activators.
Although
pain may be a part of life, you don’t have to suffer.
ASPIRIN, whose active ingredient is acetylsalicylic acid (ASA), works by decreasing the production of prostaglandins (pain amplifiers) found in the body. ASPIRIN is also classified as an NSAID (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug) and unlike other pain relievers containing acetaminophen which reduce the perception of pain, the active ingredient in ASPIRIN also goes to the site of the pain to help reduce the pain of inflammation.
ASPIRIN has been helping to relieve Canadians’ pain longer than any other product. Whatever your degree of pain, from headaches to migraines to arthritis pain, to backaches ASPIRIN has a product* that is right for you.
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